PM Rama told a news conference at “Mother Teresa” international airport where the first 192 thousand doses of “Sinovac” vaccine arrived from Turkey, that, “today we bring to Albania 192 thousand doses and within 60 days, based on a fast-track schedule, we will receive another 1.2 million doses which enable us to accelerate the vaccination throughout the territory based on the mass immunization plan.

“Our ambition, our target is the end of June, the end of June is at its latest as we aim to vaccinate half a million citizens within May. However, the deadline is within June, ” Rama said.

“In the Republic of Albania, we currently have 282 thousand vaccines on top of the delivery that has just arrived, we also have ‘AstraZeneca,’ ‘Pfizer’ and ‘Sputnik’, which number 90 thousand doses, 38 thousand ‘AstraZeneca’ vaccines, 42 thousand ‘Pfizer’ and 10 thousand ‘Sputnik’. Meanwhile, we expect another 70 thousand ‘Pfizer’ vaccines, 80 thousand ‘AstraZeneca’ and also 25 thousand other vaccines such as ‘Sputnik’ to add to these vaccines, which together with 106 thousand vaccines that are in process with the EU total 871 thousand vaccines, in addition to the contracted amount of half a million Sinovac vaccines that I said today in the previous announcement,” – said Rama.
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